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Local officials on Wednesday announced a milestone -- $36 million in federal grants -- for an ambitious program to provide a full range of social and education services to students and their families in several neighborhoods. The effort is called Promise Zone and targets Hollywood, Pico-Union and Koreatown. A related initiative is underway in the San Fernando Valley, centered in the Pacoima area. “The strategy of the whole is: cradle to career,” said Dixon Slingerland, executive director of the locally based Youth Policy Institute, which is overseeing most of the federal funding. “These grants come in and fit into certain chunks of that.” The idea, he said, is...

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Local officials on Wednesday announced a milestone -- $36 million in federal grants -- for an ambitious program to provide a full range of social and education services to students and their families in several neighborhoods.
The effort is called Promise...

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James Green, a 17-year veteran of the...

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Police say the fire that engulfed Josh Powell's home in Washington state Sunday, apparently killing him and his two young sons, was deliberately set--and as far as they're concerned, that concludes the long-running investigation into the disappearance of Powel

Josh Powell: Josh Powell's actions this weekend -- he used a hatchet on his two young boys before killing them all in a fiery explosion -- have triggered a public outcry and demands to know why more wasn't done to protect the children.

The 911 dispatcher who took a social worker's first phone call before Josh Powell killed his two boys and himself told NBC's Dateline that he was "clumsy" and that he wishes he had recognized the urgency of the situation.

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Josh Powell explosion: There's outrage anew as Josh Powell's family tries to have him buried in the same Washington state cemetery where his two young sons were laid to rest. Powell took an axe to the boys and then killed all three of them in a fiery explosion

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